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Plain clothes armed gardai will front cordoned-off areas where crowds gather to get a glimpse of Joe Biden in a bid to limit access to the US President.
A source explained: “In these areas where crowds are behind barriers, a huge amount of armed gardai will be placed at the front of those. “And at the same time they will be in constant communication with their colleagues. But because there’s a large amount of gardai up the front of these areas, a good few will get to shake hands with Biden too.”
There will be 500 gardai on duty in Dublin alone, with 200 armed, while up to 400 Secret Service personnel will be on the island during the four-day visit.Some of his travel during his visit to Ireland will be on the Marine Corps One helicopter. Security arrangements for that aircraft are still being finalised. Sources say it is still not confirmed if it will be kept at Shannon or Dublin Airport.
When he visited Ireland as Vice-President in 2016 Mr Biden stopped off at Lily Finnegan’s, a pub between Carlingford and Dundalk in the townland of Whitestown from where his great-great-grandfather Owen Finnegan emigrated in the 1840s.
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